Colorful Tesuque Indian Rain God

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Pottery Pre 1970: item #795415

The classic tourist pottery from the 1960s are these Tesuque Rain God figures. The height of kitsch, no respectable Indian art gallery would sell this, but wait, now it is so cool! Might help those of you in drought conditions.

This Tesuque Indian Rain God was found in a warehouse wrapped in newspaper of the day, circa 1964. We have had several of these lately, we buy all we can find!... Click for details

Vintage Tesuque Indian Rain God

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Pottery Pre 1970: item #795413

The classic tourist pottery from the 1960s are these Tesuque Rain God figures. The height of kitsch, no respectable Indian art gallery would sell this, but wait, now it is so cool! Might help those of you in drought conditions.

This Tesuque Indian Rain God was found in a warehouse wrapped in newspaper of the day, circa 1964. We have had several of these lately, we buy all we can find!... Click for details

Alma Lawrence Maricopa Indian Pottery

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Pottery Pre 1970: item #795084

Lovely and graceful pottery bowl by Maricopa Indian artist Alma Lawrence. Handcrafted with coils of native clay, paddle and anvil smoothed, red slip applied inside, red slip on outside is stone burnished to a high shine, decorated with mesquite sap paint then pit fired. The repeating design of curvilinear and angular lines are finely executed around the upper two thirds of the exterior.

Purchased from Alma in her home ... Click for details

Old Apache/Yavapai Indian Basket Large Olla

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1930: item #780990

Large Apache olla shaped basket with 34 figures of men, deer and dogs. Beautifully balanced shape and design finely woven with willow and devils claw over a three rod willow foundation.

Standing 14" tall and 12 1/2" diameter at the shoulder, 4 coils and 18 wefts per inch. Perfect original condition, no missing or replaced stitches, no stains or discolorations, light age patina.... Click for details

Bessie Mike Yavapai Indian Basket

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1970: item #776031

Yavapai Indian basket of willow and devils claw, woven by the famous Bessie Mike in the 1960s, very late for a coil basket. Bessie Mike was one of the last of the old generation Yavapai basket weavers. The willow is just beginning to get a patina.

The basketry tray with four eagles in a flower with a checkerboard center is nicely woven. The rim is beautiful with the alternating willow and devils claw. 10 1/2" diame... Click for details

Vintage Cochiti Indian Drum

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Handiwork Pre 1960: item #772233

Bold cobalt blue and yellow Indian drum from the Cochiti Pueblo of New Mexico, purchased in 1954 from Al Momaday at a Pow Wow in Oklahoma. Momaday was not the maker but the seller.

This fine old drum has been in one home all these years.

Standing 16" tall by 10-11" across, it is a hollowed out log of cottonwood or aspen, covered with raw hide... Click for details

A MIX OF NATIVE AMERICAN COLLECTIBLES: GROUP 3

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian Pre 1980: item #770398
NAI.GROUP3

This assorted group of Native American collectibles (102.73N & SHD; AXH1835 & 2398; BB222; CMK110; JI218 & 225; TEH124, 126, & 162; and WG106), each individually photographed and priced, includes examples of jewelry, artifacts, pottery, beads…and more. Prices range from $30 to $225; materials vary with clay, stone, amber, silver, and glass being in the mix. The various items come from the collections of Chester Howard, Mike Kastner, Elmer Grimm, Billy Branch, Jess McKee, and Dr. Allen Heflin. A ... Click for details

TWELVE INDIAN RELATED COLLECTIBLES: GROUP 1

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian Pre 1980: item #770228
NAI.GROUP1

This is a group of assorted and individually priced Native American collectibles (97.315AH, 99.78A & 102.73HHD; AXH2593; BB26; CH213 & 981A; DRC2; TEH122, 131 & 153; and WG107) that ranges in age from Paleo-Indian to 20th century southwestern Pueblo. Stone artifacts, pottery, and trade items of beads and copper make up this group, and geographic areas represented include: New Mexico, the Great Basin, Oregon, California, Georgia, Ohio, South Dakota…and others. Prices range from $20 to $450. The c... Click for details

Garnet Pavatea Hopi Redware Pottery Bowl

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Pottery Pre 1960: item #770212

Red ware pottery bowl by Hopi Indian artist Garnet Pavatea, purchased at the Hopi Show of 1968 at the Museum of Northern Arizona.

Traditionally hand built with coils of native clay, red slip is highly burnished inside and out, then precisely impressed with a triangular pot sherd all across the surface of the flat shoulder. Pit fired at a high temperature, no burns or fire clouds.... Click for details

SUPERB EAGLE HEAD CLUB WITH ANTLER TIP SPIKE

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Handiwork Pre 1930: item #769333
KJH.87

This spectacular hand-carved 17” long ‘ceremonial club’ (KJH87) was purchased by Ken Hladek in March 2003 (as he recalls, it was an estate sale and the item number was 0962..."INDIAN TRADE WAR CLUB - LUKA) at a Lolli Brothers auction in Macon, Missouri. The only information that came with this lethal-looking weapon was a note that it was from the William R. Gauld collection of Elmo, Montana, a town located well within the boundaries of the Flathead Indian reservation. Many other items offered in... Click for details